On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Gene Ordanza II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yep, Perl TMTOWTDI either works for you or just a pain in the... and if your > going to be maintaining old scripts, good luck. But what strikes me most > about learning Perl nowadays, is that folks getting into it are mostly doing > code maintenance work as opposed to learning the language for the heck/fun > of it. I supposed TMTOWTDI can be more of unnecessary 'challenge' as > opposed to just one obvious way to do it.
I'm probably an exception, having wanting to learn Perl because I wanted to start writing CGI applications with it back at high school in '98, when I got this Web Design book published by Coriolis, that segued a bit into CGI programming with the then Perl 4 (Perl 5 was just hitting the scene.) Nowadays though I write Perl scripts for automation, being the only guy to use it in a mostly Ruby shop ;). For my personal site, its the standard language (no Ruby or Python as much as possible) and I try to push back to the CPAN with new modules in the works. -- Zak B. Elep || http://zakame.spunge.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
